Helping Others Boosts Happiness and Health
Having recently returned from a working holiday trip to Tanzania, a place that I visited in 2011 and that continues to draw me back, I’ve been reflecting on why it holds such appeal to me. One might think that volunteering at a children and women’s centre, housing a number of orphans and disadvan…
Benefits of Mental Illness
By Olivia Mew, Queen’s Student We’re grateful to have had Olivia complete her Queen’s University Community Internship with us here at KIHC. Having a mental illness is often considered a flaw or weakness, but does it have to be? With a small change in perception, mental i…
Did Climate Change Cause Lyme Disease?
Where did this Lyme epidemic come from? “Tick-checks” weren’t a thing when we were kids. Now, ticks not only swarm our conservation areas, but also our gardens and children’s playgrounds. More than 1/3 of them in our area are infected with Borrelia, the bacteria believed to cause Lyme Disease, an…
A Breath of Fresh Air
This Earth Day, let’s explore healthy breathing and gratitude for fresh, clean air! What are Breathing Pattern Disorders? Breathing pattern disorders (BPDs) include a range of abnormal respiratory patterns, such as shallow breathing from our upper chest, or hyperventilation, where we breathe too …
Garden Now, Live Longer
I need to start this article with sharing my person bias: I love gardening. This hasn’t always been the case but a few years ago we started our own vegetable garden. Now I have the gardening “bug”. I have been delighted to find just how much peace and calm digging in the dirt gives me, […]
The POSSIBILITY PROJECT
“If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” ― Thomas A. Edison Yes. I absolutely believe this to be true. The Possibility Project Podcast is my latest exploration in to this largely undiscovered territory of the miracle of all that we could be….
Interview about Sleep, with our Clinical Pharmacist
You might be wondering whether your pharmaceuticals are interrupting your sleep, or whether a pharmacist can help you choose a safe over-the-counter drug to treat the occasional restless sleep. We asked Tarek, our Clinical Pharmacist, a few targeted questions about how he approaches insomnia with…
Resolving Insomnia
Apparently, the world record for the longest time staying awake, achieved by a teenager in in the 1960s, is 11 consecutive days. Can you imagine how awful he must have felt? How irritable, illogical, and accident-prone, he must’ve been? Even chronic, small bits of sleep deprivation are associated…
3 Steps to Avoid Unpleasant Arguments
By Lindsay Dupuis, M.A., C.C.C. When couples fight, they often report going over the same problems time and again. Furthermore, many people express frustration around not feeling heard by their partners during an argument, and nothing really changing afterwards. This is a problem seeing as the ro…
Book Review by Dr. Angela Hunt ND
BOOK: The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children by Shefali Tsabary I was told about this book, ‘The Conscious Parent’ by Shefali Tsabary, a while ago and it sat in my “To Be Read” pile for a couple of years. It wasn’t until I heard her interview on Oprah’s SuperSoul Co…
